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MEMORANDUM FOR Mr. Elmer 5. Staate
Executive Officer
Cperations Coordinating Board
SUBJECT:
TWO REPORTS RECENTLY ISSUED ON THE MEDICAL EFFEMTS
OF RADIATION ON THE MARSHALLESE CITIZENS FXPCGED
IN EARLY MARCH 1954 TO FALLOUT FROM UNITED STATES
NUCLEAR WEAPONS TESTS.
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You will recall our reports to the Operations Coordinating
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Board on the issuance of the medical findings resulting frem
the treatment of Marshallese citizens exposed to radiation
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from a United States weapons test in early March 1954.
Two publications covering these medical data are being issued
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this week. Six copies of each are enclosed for such distribution as you may wish to make to the Operations Coordinating
Board as a matter of information. The first volume, a monc=
graph entitled "Some Effects of Ionizing Radiation on Human
Beings," covers the course of the ailments suffered by those
exposed during the first year after their exposure. The second,
and smaller report, "Medical Survey of Marshallese Two Years
After Exposure to Fallout Radiation," brings the medical data
down to the present, coverine the medical history of the exyposed individuals up to March, 1956.
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